Royce Gracie: Step off! Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida have the perfect strategy

a win is a win!

Actually Rashad did hit him in that fight. Lyoto got aggressive and landed a combination on Rashad who then punched back and landed at least one good shot right on Lyoto’s chin. It wasn’t very hard but he did get at least one clean shot in.

if Royce says it…its true

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Huge A. Silva fan. I like what Royce is saying, but the draw to this sport is entertainment so I also understand the criticism of a “boring” performance. Question, will the better quality of mma fighters up and coming cause less exciting fights? For instance,if more up and comers are well versed in striking and grappling and make less mistakes, would it give the fans less exciting moments and finishes. picture a fight with Lyoto machida vs Lyoto machida. Whether you like his style or not, he is well rounded and makes few mistakes. If more fighters model his style, would mma still interest you?

It’s called mixed martial arts, it has rules, and people can do whatever they want within the scope of those rules. Not very complicated, until you throw in some emotions and personal opinions. Leave the last two for the fighters to decide on.

Very well said Royce.

If you step into combat your only goal should be to finish your opponent. How you do it is up to you but a decision, especially for a title, is a very boring end.

Royce is right, it’s kind of a trade-off really… don’t get hit and have a longer career for less money per fight…or fight like a crazy-man (Wandy) and have a shorter career for more money per fight…add possible brain damage.

Entertainment is great…but I hate that the goal of finding the most effective and efficeint way to end a fight has been generally sacrificed. Instead fans seem to prefer the toe to toe slugfests. After all the debates and pissing contests about the gladiatorial blood values of the sport it has been voluntarily accepted.

Anderson should thank his lucky stars he’s getting matched up with Griffen. If he was matched up against a lower-tier guy I didn’t care about I would definitely boycott his next fight.

His last fight was disgraceful. It wasn’t even a fight.

This keyboard warrior could stand with the greatest fighter in the world if the greatest fighter in the world didn’t fight.

Fck Royce. He can suck my bálls.

Boring fighters should just be cut.

Royce = MMA Godfather with that being said he is 100% right. I do think Silva needed to try and finish Leites when he was on the ground/top. His Bjj is very good. i mean he is only the 3rd guy to make Danny tap. So for him to just stand back up IMO was weak. That was the only fight i was not happy with from Silva. The Cote fight was going Ok and i think Cote was going to get OKed in the 4th. From his 1st 15 fights Lyoto has gotten better with each fight and looks to finish more and more. We have not even seen the best from Lyoto yet. I do think we are seeing or have seen the best Silva has.

Royce is right, Anderson fought a good fight, Thales should be thrown out of the UFC.

Spot on from Royce Gracie, Anderson and Lyoto are both world class fighters who fight smart, I’d rather have quality fighters looking to win rather than entertain any day. Part of the fun in watching fights is seeing guys come up with a gameplan to beat their opponent, using their strengths and their opponents weaknesses to their advantage. By not being hit, Anderson and Lyoto are constantly winning and outclassing their opponents, sometimes with flashy KOs othertimes not but that is why they, as well as GSP, are the best fighters that the UFC has to offer.

All of you critics of Anderson Silva are crazy. he is hands down one of the 3 best p4p fighters in the world. What do you guys expect anderson to do if his opponent falls to the ground everytime he’s about to attack? Thales’ goal in that fight was to go the distance which he did. he didnt show up to win. Patrick Cote was jsut the same.

We will never know :)

I love action packed fights. In my opinion, a win is a win. I hear people including Dana White get on Anderson. Here is my thoughts. Iknow they don’t mean a thing. I have been watching this sport a long time. In the beginning i loved the blood and all hell breaking lose fights. Now i would just as much like to watch a person who is tactical win fights. The are both counter fighters. It has got them to where they are. Anderson’s first few opponents charged in and got destroyed. Now they all lay back and wait. He is not changing. He knows for them to take his title they must attack. When this happens he will destroy them. Of course he wants to make fans happy but fans shoul understand that he is not changing just to make them happy and might cost him a title. He has come to far for that. Fighters are scared to engage Anderson. That is not his fought. Why should he change. They are the ones that want what he has.

I’m over hearing people talk about certain MMA fighters being boring. The sport is changing, becoming more tactical, more mental. People have criticized the grappling aspect of MMA for 15 years. It is MIXED MARTIAL ARTS, and sorry, but grappling is part of the game. If you want to watch 15 minutes of technical striking and exchanges, start watching K-1!!! Otherwise, learn to appreciate the technical aspects of the game, even in the “duller” moments. I’ve found over the past few years to enjoy the “boring” fights more because they are so strategic. My favorite fight of all time was Demien Maia and Jason MacDonald in an all-out BJJ clinic. Most people would call that fight boring, but to me it was intense.

Anderson did nothing wrong in either of his last two fights. Fighters stand up from the top position all the time. Why is it any different for Anderson? Although Siva is a phenomenal jiu-jitsu practitioner, Leites is a BJJ world champion. Why would any fighter want a fight to go to the area where the other fighter has the most potential to win, or even an advantage as Leites probably had?

I disagree with him on the a. silva fight he was clearly in no danger standing up. and leites was clearly scared to even swing at silva. Why drag the fight on when u could finish the guy. If you opponet is dangerous then yea the cautious route isnt a bad idea but leites didnt look very dangerous to me. I mean this is a fight and 2 people playing handsy with eachother for 25 minutes isnt a fight to me.

“Are today’s fans too eager to watch a 15-minute bloodbath at the expense of an intelligent and often slower-paced ground war?”

since when do lyoto machida and anderson silva take ti to the gorund?